As a divided world edges closer to a pandemic treaty, gaps in pathogen sharing, One Health commitments, and funding threaten progress. In this context, Suerie Moon explores if 2025 will deliver the needed breakthrough.
GPO 2025
Stakes are high for safeguarding environmental diversity. A tried-and-tested practice on the African continent, Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) must be scaled up to a global level and Geneva can play a critical role in doing so.
GPO 2025
Amid the widening conflict in the Middle East, Hiba Qasas highlights the changing realities since October 7, 2023 and discusses how non-traditional peacemakers are supporting pragmatic efforts to end the conflict.
GPO 2025
Weapons of Mass Destruction defined the 20th century, but today, WMDs take a new form: ‘Weapons of Mass Disinformation.’ Jean-Marc Rickli argues that Geneva can remain the central hub for disarmament diplomacy by tackling these new WMDs.
GPO 2025
Microplastics are an emerging and overlooked factor in the global decline of human fertility. Aditya Bharadwaj calls for interdisciplinary research and integrated policy action to address the intersection of environmental pollution and human health.
GPO 2025
In the African continent, a peace-positive approach to carbon finance for land restoration is key to aligning the interests of investors and smallholder farmers. Geneva must ensure that carbon finance does not accelerate but rather halts conflict.
GPO 2025
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Diplomacy as an instrument for dealing with the world’s biggest problems is in decline. David Harland underlines that the world must reverse this trend by accepting a hierarchy of interests, rediscovering compromise and pragmatism, and working through hybrid diplomacy.
GPO 2024
A dedicated movement, a cross-sector approach, and ongoing minilateralism are key features of a new multilateralism. Reflecting on the 2023 Global Refugee Forum, Filippo Grandi argues that pledges can be turned into action through adequate funding and a holistic and humane view of displacement.
GPO 2024
The 2023 BRICS Johannesburg Summit could harbinger a new foundation for coalition diplomacy. Jamil Chade describes the implications of the Summit for UN Security Council reforms, breaking the dominance of the US dollar, and new negotiation alliances on key global governance issues.
GPO 2024
The human rights of women, girls and gender minorities should never become trade-offs in geopolitical games. Clair Somerville argues that there is a need for leadership to prevent the instrumentalisation of gender to break consensus-based multilateralism.
GPO 2024